Cortland High School - Echo Yearbook (Seymour, IN)

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Class istory On September 12, 1947, twenty-one freshmen enrolled in Cortland High School, Mr. Sewell was our sponsor. We gained the following three girls that year: Velma Burns from Freetown, Delores Klosterman from- Lutheran School, and Claris McKinney from Seymour. The members of our class then were: Glendon Adams, Betty Allman, Bill Bell, Velma Burns, Wilbert Carr, Jewell Corn, Walter Darlage, Coleen Fleetwood, Gene Fleetwood, Louis Fleetwood, Faye Frederick, Imogene Grant, Sonny Hendershot, Delores Klosterman, Shirley Krienhagen, Lester Kuehn, Francis Mellencamp, Claris McKinney, Bill Prewitt, Chester Rust, Joe Wineinger, and Mary White. On April the twelfth, Patricia Smith entered our class from Seymour. ln our sophomore year we enrolled with a record of twenty-one with Mr. Bridges as our sponsor. Patricia Smith decided to get married, and Betty Allman decided that she would quit school to work. Wilbert Carr moved during our Christmas vacation and is now going to school at Brownstown, Clarice McKinney decided that she would ratlyer be the wife of Jim Rose than to go to school. They now have a daughter. lrnogene Grant enrolled in our class in January. After losing two and gaining one, we then had twenty in our class, and the remaining part of the year passed very well, At the beginning of our junior year we saw another change. We enrolled with nineteen in our class and Mr. McKain as sponsor. Glendon Adams decided that he would rather go to Clifford High School than Cortland. That left us with an enroll- ment of eighteen, During the months of October and November we worked very hard on the junior play, The Funny Brats , which was a success. The entire play was filled with laughs. During the months of March and April we started making plans for our Junior and Senior Reception, the theme of which was Moonlight and Roses . The gymnasium was gaily decorated with crepe paper, a moon and roses A on each table, After dinner, speeches were given by the officers and faculty. We had plenty of parties all through our junior year -- parties in homes and at school, skating parties, and hayrides. We always enjoyed ourselves. At the beginning of our senior year there were only seventeen members present. Faye Frederick had become the wife of Richard McKinney during the summer. We seniors are glad that Mr. McKain is our sponsor again in our senior year, we enjoy working with him. We had plenty.of parties the first semester. At the beginning of the second semester we decided uponthe motto, the kind of flowers and the colors that we are going to have for commencement. We chose royal blue caps and gowns. We are planning to take a trip to one of the four different places: Florida, Washington, D.C.. Niagara Falls or the Smoky Mountains. The exact place hasn't been chosen yet. We haven't selected our play yet, but we are planning to have a good one, 12

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To The Seniors As the last week in April approaches and one of the dreams of childhood and youth is to be realized in this happy period of your commencement doubtless grows warm in the heart of each, love and loyalty to the school and friends you are leaving behind. You are leaving the high school and friends for the broader life of college, business, farm and social world. During the past four years you have proven to your selves and to your friends that you have the talents and the capacity for work which gives promise that your life may be useful and successful. Your success will depend on your choice of occupation and your ability to do this one thing, putting all your energies to the accomplishment of your one pur- pose in life. No man succeeds who has not a fixed and resolute purpose of life and faith that he can carry this purpose out. Steadfast application to a fixed purpose is the law of successful living. It is my sincere wish that each of you has a happy and prosperous life and will be a leader in your community. Arthur L. Glaze, Principal Senior Honor Roll A 's B's C 's Points Mary White .fin -T T- 77 Velma Burns 16 10 2. 70 Louis Fleetwood 13 14 Z 69 Note l. At least 60 points for the first seven semesters Z. 3. Bill Bell: Doctor: Mr, Sewell: Mr. 1VlcKain: Mrs. Glaze: Mr. Glaze: Mrs. Hall: Shirley: No failing grades Honor points are figured on the following basis: A-33 B-Z5 C-1 Chuckles Doctor, what 1 need is something to stir me up, sornething to put me in fighting trim. Do you have anything like that in this prescrip- tion ? ' No, you'l1 find that in the bill. What kind of bridge does your wife play? Judging from what it cost, it must be toll bridge. Do you know that you forgot your umbrella this morning ? Yes, I remembered that l forgot it when I raised my hand to close it after it stopped raining. in What makes a faucet drip? Cause it can't sniff. ll

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Class Prophecy One day in the late summer of 1962 Bill Prewitt and I decided to visit our former classmates. We had received letters from some of them. Bill and Iwere in a business of our own and doing very well. We owned the C. H. S., a movie pro- ject in Hollywood. We figured it would take us about a month to see everyone so we turned the business over to a friend. The next day we got in our new shiny Model A, told our wives, the former Miss Butler and Miss Bottorff, good-bye and started on our way. After traveling through several states, we reached Texas and the re we met Gene QPunkj Fleetwood, who owned a large ranch not far from Houston. He asked us to stay with them for several days, but since there were fourteen others to see, we stayed only one night. The next morning after breakfast we tried out a few broncs. After dinner we started on our way again. Bill wanted to see the Chicago Fair which was being celebratedg we arrived there about a week later without any mishaps. We spent the morning walking and looking over the fairgrounds. In the afternoon we decided that we would like to see the Lucky Lot Hell Drivers. After we had seated ourselves and looked at our in- formation sheet, we saw a name that looked familiarg it happened to be Chester Rust. After a thrilling hour we inquired about their man whom we thought we should know, We found out that it was the same fellow whom weyhad gone to school with eleven years ago. We spent the remainder of the afternoon talking about the past and present happenings. Chester had been in the hell driving business for a hot five years, and was doing well, even though his wife, Charlene, wished that he would quit. We spent that night in the trailer house with Chester and his wife. The next morning about eleven o'clock we said good-bye to Chester and the Chicago Fair and started on our way to Indiana. We had gotten a letter from Louis Fleetwood several weeks before inviting us to come to Indianapolis for a visit. Another day found us at his home which was very beautiful. Louis is the president of the First National Bank in Indianapolis His wife, Louise, who was very nice, invited us to stay for a while. We sat out- side and talked about old times. Louis has two children, the oldest was a girl four years old and his son was three. That night Louis gave a party in our honor, we met several friends of the Fleetwoods. We stayed there the remainder of the night talking and finally got to bed about three o'clock in the morning. The next afternoon we told the Fleetwoods good-bye. As we were goingzthrough Columbus we decided to look up Coleen QColiej Fleetwood. We had recently received word from her that she lived in Columbusi We hunted the rest of the evening and slept at a hotel that night. The next morning we found out where she lived. She was home with her husband, Gene, who was a minister. We stayed at their house that night and started for Seymour in the morning. Bill Bell was the General Motors car dealer and also junk dealer. We found him at his -home with the former Nedra Larson, his wife, and two sons. We talked about happenings of the years gone by. We stayed overnight and had fun playing with little Bells. The next morning we traded our beloved suped up Model A for an Oldsmobile hard top convertible, We said good-bye and went to the television station where we found Eugene QSonnyl Hendershot playing records. He was a disc jockey on Seyxnour television station. His wife, the former Marilyn Highbaugh, was there with him. We had dinner with them and talked for 13